Here Come The Internet Speech Police

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

While The Messiah unleashes his diversity goon from the FCC, who happens to be a fan of Hugo Chavez, on His political foes on talk radio, Congress is about to give Him the power to take over and shut down the Internet, another source of criticism of Him and of His policies.

Internet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet.

They’re not much happier about a revised version that aides to Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, have spent months drafting behind closed doors. CNET News has obtained a copy of the 55-page draft of S.773 (excerpt), which still appears to permit the president to seize temporary control of private-sector networks during a so-called cybersecurity emergency.

The new version would allow the president to “declare a cybersecurity emergency” relating to “non-governmental” computer networks and do what’s necessary to respond to the threat. Other sections of the proposal include a federal certification program for “cybersecurity professionals,” and a requirement that certain computer systems and networks in the private sector be managed by people who have been awarded that license.

This should send chills down  the spine of every libertarian- and freedom-minded person in America. What type of “emergency” would cause this to happen? No one knows.

And to think the very same people who hallucinated that George Bush and Dick Cheney were somehow taking away Americans’ rights on almost a daily basis are silent — cue the chirping crickets — when it’s their Anointed One.

Folks, people like Barack Hussein Obama, a narcissist with a messianic complex, do not like to be opposed. Look at Him telling ordinary Americans opposing His health care plan, known here as ChappaquddiCare — to shut up and get out of His way. Almost like a petulent child but far more malevolent.

They’re emulating Hugo Chavez in Venezuela.

“I think the redraft, while improved, remains troubling due to its vagueness,” said Larry Clinton, president of the Internet Security Alliance, which counts representatives of Verizon, Verisign, Nortel, and Carnegie Mellon University on its board. “It is unclear what authority Sen. Rockefeller thinks is necessary over the private sector. Unless this is clarified, we cannot properly analyze, let alone support the bill.”

The vagueness should frighten anyone. Again, what would qualify as an “emergency”? A terrorist attack? A pandemic, such as swine flu? Or just too doggone much speech goin’ on out there?

You think you had troofer moonbats after 9/11? Wait until there is a terrorist attack followed by Obama and his minions taking over the Internet (the state-run media will already have surrendered control to Him, not that they haven’t already), talk radio and cable news.

Anyone claiming 9/11 was an inside job, a Reichstag fire for the Bush administration, is certifiably insane. But this new scenario would certainly give cause to think about what happened. What really happened? No one would know, because the government would control all the means of communication.

It’s the foot-in-the-door to martial law.

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